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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-21
IN AN INSANE ASYLUM.
uallucinaiions oC Unfortunates Condemned
to Life Incarceration

uallucinations oCUnfortunatesC Condemned
TO Life Incarceration.
In an asylum for the insane. The Iuster
less light of n dying day falls through the
p'gh, narrow, iron barred windows into q
long, gloomy corridor.
With the tirelessness OF n Gagged tiger.
says the Philadelphia American, few men.
most of whom are barefoot, afflicted with a
milder type OF dementia, pace the foor
and gibber to themselves.
Ranged on either side Of the corridor arc
cells, and here and there can be discerned
PAIR OF wild eyes glaring sullenly through
tue small apertures in the door,
Inc weird notes OF flute fill the air. The
tune Is impromptu, and is well adapted TO
she disordered fancy OF the players.
Now its sounds are low and pathetic,
such as to make tender-hearted women
weep, and now it is shrill and exultant. a
wild series of high pitched trilIs.
The music ceases, and the player, cast
ing aside his instrument, with a grating,
meaningless laugh, hastens down the cor
ridor with desperate energy.
when he arrives at the other end he has
forgotten his errand, and he slowly retraces
his steps TO obey the next capricious die
tates Of his imbecile mind.
The reporter, conducted by a keeper. as
cends to the floor above.
Tho cell nearest the stairway is tenanted
by dark-featured man, who clutches
at the bars of the door with a fury that
threatens to snap them like so many match
sticks.
There is no danger, however.
This" said the keeper, ais one of our
most violent patients. He is a German.
and was educated in Heidelberg. His
story is rather romantic. Upon the COM
pletion OF his scholastic career he made a
tour OF the continent. While at Nice he
saved the daughter OF some nobIeman
from death. He fell deeply in love with
her.
"She returned his affection, and thew
were engaged to be married. Before that
event could be contaminated the girl was
taken i'll with malignant fever aud died.
Her death deeply affected the man before
you, aud at the solicitation of friends be
left Nice. He wandered from place to
place, finally coming to this country. Be
ing in opulent circumstances, and rem
dersd insensible to every thing GOOD and
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-21
TWO COMMUNITIES.
Brief History of Some SooiaIistic Expori-
mcnts la the state OF Iowa.

brief History of Some sooiaIistic ExPori-
mcnts la the state OF Iowa
The Tcarian community near Corning,
Ia, has, according to the Sioux City Jour
nal, practically dissolved. The trouble
was that tho youngest members would not
not brook the restraints imposed by the
laws and rules OF tho society. The old men
were sticklers, and too rigid in their inter-
probation, and the young men robeled.
The society had its origin in Franco, and
Iettled I'm n body at Nnuvoo, ILL.,, but
g, moved to the present location in 1854, be-
fore tho organization OF this section into
counties. The founder was Etienne CADET.
The society, unlike most other communistic
bodies, has no religious forms, believing
that tho essence OF religion exists rather
in practice than in creed, the members re-
rRrding Sunday as n day OF amusement.
Although atheists, the principal feature Of
the Icarian schcme Is the one text of tho
New Testament which underlies all COM
munistic experience, to be found In Acts
H., ~, 20; "And all that believed were to-
gether, and had all things in common;
and sold their possessions and goods and
parted them TO all men, as every man had
need"
For nearly generation rs time Is meas
ured in the life OF man the Icarians dwelt
happily and contented. Their property, n
farm OF three thousand acres, was owned
In common. A council Of the oldest men
controlled Affairs and designated the work
each person was TO perform. There was lit
tlo association for many years with the
outside world. The language spoken was
French and the old men were slow in get
ting knowledge OF English. AS already
intimated, the young people who have
grown up since coming here were anxious
for more progressive methods and ideas.
OF course the elders opposed any innoya-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-21
TOLD THE USUAL LIE.
Some MArVels OF Vegetation Observed by
Dakota Farmer.

Some MArVels OF Vegetation Observed by
Dakota Farmer.
A man from the East was driving
through the country in Charles Mix
County, OAK, one day last summer look
ing at the land with a view of purchasing.
He stopped aud according to the Dakota
Bel, got into conversation with a settler.
81 understand that vegetation makes
some remarkably rapid growths in this
country" remarked the prospective land
buyer.
"Y-a.e-s," replied the other rather
doubtfully, "I reckon. Ii you mean that
green things sometimes just hump them
selves, yer bout right"
Gould you relate a few instances of
rapid GROWTH"
81 s'pose might il you'd like to hear
EN-"
81 should-go ahead"
"Well," replied the other as he bit
piece of tobacco in two and put the smaller
piece in his pocket, "things gene'lIy hump
themselves the wust immedrt'ly follerin' a
rain. had piece OF young wheat onct
which, after a rain, begun growin' so fast
that it pulled or at the top o. the ground
an flew up'n the MR."
ais it possiblei"
"Factl Garden truck the same way. I
went out to my garden one mornin' after
shower an found the cab'ges with their
heads up on the top board OF the fence sort
u lookin' over at me-"
THAT beats any thing 1 ever heard ofw
81 reckoned it would. The same sum-
mer | bad some pole beans. 1t got pertty
dry OH 'enl, but one day there come a good
shower. They had poles bout twenty feet
long. l went out jes' as the shower
stopped an was lookin' at 'em an in
bout five minutes, when the rain had
soaked down, them beans begun to climb
them poles so fast that they pulled them
selves up by the roots an went on twist
ing round the poles clear to the top with
the roots dangling in the air."
"Say! aren't you putting that Just
tri1e strongi"
"Not bit of it, sir! I've saw trees in
this country grow so they would split the
bark open like gun. Hop vines usually
shoot up so fast that they don't have time
to twist, an stick up'n the cir straight's a
string. Corn sometimes hurries up so that
it seems to kinder forgit to have any ears
on it a-tall and"
"Hold on, hold on, 1 don't believe half
you are telling me-"
""Don't believe it? Well, all right-you
needn't. It's the regular story / tell to all
yUu fellers that comes long looking for
land an yer the first ono to doubt it.
Mebbe the story is a little mixed-I don't
know. Say, amt got any terbacker bout
yer, s'posc!0
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-21
WHEN TO ADVERTISE.

An Article That Should BE Committed to
Memory by Every Merchant.
There's nothing on earth so mysterious
ly funny as a newspaper advertisement,
says a writer in Sells Dictionary of the
Worlds Press. The prime, first, last and
all the time object of an advertise
ment is to draw custom. 1t is not, was
not, and never will be designed for any
other human purpose. So the merchant
waits till the busy season comes, and his
store is so full Of customers that he can't
get his hat Off, and then he rushes to the
newspapers and puts in his advertise
ment. When the dull season gets along
and there is no trade, and he wants to
sell goods so bad that he can't pay
his rent, he takes out his adver-
tisement-that Is, some of them debut
occasionally a level-headed merchant puts
in bigger one and scoops all the business,
while his neighbors are making mortgages
60 pay the gas bill. There are times when
you couldn't stop people from buying
every thing in the store IL you planted a
cannon behind the door, and that's the
time the advertisement Is sent out on its
holy mission. II makes light work for the
advertisements, for q chalk sign on the side
walk could do all that was needed and
have a half-holiday six days in the week;
but who wants to favor an advertisement?
They are built to do hard work and should
be sent out in the dull days, when the GUS
toner has to be knocked down with hard
facts and kicked insensible with bankrupt
reductions and dragged in with irresistible
slaughter Of prices, before he will spend
cent. That's the aim and end Of an adver-
tisement, and, il ever you open a store,
don't try and get them to come when they
are already blocking up the doorway and
sticking out Of the windows, but give them
your advertisement right between the eyes
in the dull season, and perhaps be able to
smoke a good cigar once or twice a year.
Write this down where you'll fall over it
every day. The time TO draw business is
when you want business, and not when
you have more business than you can at
tend 70 aIroadx,
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pure by the untimeIy death OF MS De-
trothed, be plunged into dissipation in the
widest form, which eventually made him
= mental and physical wreck"
During this conversation the insane
man gave utterance to EXPLANATIONS of an
incoherent character, and as soon as the
keeper had ceased, burst into passionate
recital. He fancied that he had cast his
affianced into a flaming pit and that her
death shrek still rang in his ears.
"Hal ha! hap he laughed, wildly.
"They think she died, but she didn't. ha !,
bal ha! l killed her. Yes, killed her. Oh.
my, but wasn't it a fine night for such a
DEVILS deedy The darkness was frightfuI.
Lightning blazed forth with demoniacal
fury from the heavens. The thunder made
the earth culver like a reed in the blast.
All the imps Of Patala were out"
The maniac paused in his excessive
frenzy and dashed from his distorted face
the great beads of perspiration that trickled
from his forehead, and continued in the
same wild manner:
81 stole her when she was asleep. and
fed like some arch demon from the black
est abyss of Hades with her, out-out into
the night. She, ha, ha, no, no, strug.
gled like some frightened bird. But
what good did it do? IL had her.
On we went, through the fierce noe.
turnal storm, until we came to a plateau.
A blazing pit yawned before us. Oh, how
merrily the yellow and blue tongued flames
curled up. The air was filed with an in
fernal din-whOops, agonized screams,
yells and laughter. Saturnalian demons
played with cleaning rods Of flame on
shining death heads, and serpents Kissed
in their anbuscades. 1 held the one loved
nloft, and with arms OF iron hurled her into
the pit. Her cry-that Of q lost soul
still haunts me-"
And the maniac sank exhausted to the
floor.
at seems strange" said the keeper, as
the twain descended the stairs, "that a
man afflicted so violently with insanity can
talk 80 coherently at times. That man
imagination is as powerful and wonderful
4 yrns Poajs %
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-21
The First Published Waltz.

The researches of German composer
have been rewarded with the discovery
that the first published waltz which we
possess dates from exactly q hundred
years ago. 1t was written by q certain
Vincent Martin, about whom nothing
more seems to be known. The waltz
itself is, however, very much older
than Martins time, there being good rea-
son to identify 1t with the old Provencal
"Volta," which is known to date as far
back as the twelfth century. Popular as
the waltz has become, it is curious that
hardly any two nations in Europe dance 10
alike. There are differences of rhythm,
time and style, which cause no small con-
fusion when partners of different national
tiles dance it together.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-21

upon the Shrinking attendant, wnom she
evidently took for the artistic surgeon
who had operated on Johnnie's arm.
"That there cows head came out on his
arm as the sore healed up. It's burning
shame" The lady was pacified finally by
being told that the mark could possibly be
removed by skiIlful surgeon; that it was
only a gathering Of blood beneath the
skin.
She at last departed in a mild state of
wrath, without giving her name or adj
dress, and did not appear to appreciate
the suggestion of facetious reporter who
had watched the proceeding, that she rent
little Johnnie out to a dime museum. The
possible effects of vaccination, as dis
played in little Johnnie's case, did not
cause much CONSERVATION among the chill
dren who were to be operated upon, and,
five minutes after the matron's departure,
the regular work Of vaccination was going
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-21
A Monster Hive of Honey.

According to the Revue Horticole, the
French National Society of Acclimation
has lately published the following aston
ishing fact: "Dr. E. Guilmeth, during an
exploration which he was making in Aus
tralian forests, in 1884, perceived, one day,
at the summit of an eucalyptus tree, which
measured % feet in diameter and 395 feet
in height, a sort of hut rounded at the top.
Almost Immediately he noticed a multi
tude Of black insects, which were flying
and buzzing around this mass, in which he
recognized hive of the black bees of Tas-
mania After having felled the tree, the
doctor extracted from the hive 7,716
pounds (S,5O0 kilogrammes) Of honey, the
empty hive still weighing about 2,20C
pounds Il 600 kilogrammes). This honey Is
said to possess some particular medicinal
qualities"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-21

Notice Is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice OF HIS Intention
to make final proof I'm support of his claim.
ana That said proof will be made before the
clerk or the district court of Barber county,
Kansas, at Medicine Lodge, Kansas, on Sep
tember 20. 1887, viz: Andrew Jackson, ID. s. No.
I4l2l, for the u s-w \, and s-w Sc 4 sec IL.
ana NV NE sec IA, twp 81 south, of range
He names the following witnesses to provo
his continuous residence upon and cultivation
of said land, viz:
Nathan Priest, BF Brattain, Vernon Ly-
tie, Solomon Shaw, all of Medicine Lodge post
Office, Barber county, Kansas.
IL IL w. X. BRowNLEE, Register
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-21
Electric Ap1,,,~.

Float-fshing, the old-fashioned country
sort of angling, is now being reduced to q
hollow mockery by the aid of electricity.
IAN arrangement has been devised" says
the EJectTicidR, ''by which q pull on the
line closes the circuit of tiny battery
carried in the base of the rod, and this is
made to either sound an alarm or to gently
tickle the hand Of the fisherman as he
gTasps the butt. Nothing now binders the
sportsman from going TO Sleep" Float
fishing is evidently the thing for the peo-
pie who like TO carry big can Of "batt."
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-21
Land ONCE at Laned, KAN. Au0 5 1ss7

Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his Intention
10 make final proof in support of his claim,
ana that said proof will be made before the
probate Judge of Barber county, at Medicine
Lodge, Kansas, on November II, 1887 viz: Her
man n. Oshel, .. ID. s. No. 1885, for the Y NV
T. and s-w sec 20, twp 80 south, of range
he names the following witnesses to prove
MS CONTINUOUS residence upon and cultivation
of said land, viz:
Romig. F W Romig, of Roundup, Kan
sas; Handrub, of Medicine Lodge Kansas;
Joseph Smith, of Canema, Kansas
IA ~ w. X. BROwNLEE Register
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-21
Tho Formulation of China.

Occidental statisticians have long been
accustomed, for some reason, to regard
with doubt the periodical reports concern
ing the population of China, but inasmuch
as the Chinese law requires every house
holder to hang at his front door q list Of
the inmates of his house, it seems as
though it ought to be easy to make an ac-
curate census. By one which the officials
of the empire have recently ordered, the
population is four hundred and fifty mill
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-21
Land ofice at Larned, Kan, Aug. H. 1857

Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
10 make maj proof in support of his claim
and that said proof will be made before the
clerk OF the district court of Barber county.
~ Medlclne Lodge. Kansas, on November 2
lor tne q s-w of sec Is, twp SO south, of
he names the following witnesses to prove
of said land, viz:
George Frisby, James Lockard, of Medicine
Lodge, Kansas; Tom Shumate, Thomas Throck-
norton of Lodi, Kansas.
IA 10 w. X. BRowNLEE Register.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-21

Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice OF his intention
10 make nnai proof in support of his claim
anu tnat eald proof will be made before the
probate judge of Barber county, Mt Medicine
Lodge, Kansas on November s. 1887, viz: Wei
nngton T.; Abbott, o; ID. S. 1851, for the !.
sc St sec ~ s-w s-w sec II, and ne ne sec
ID, twp 81 south, of range ID west
lie names the following witnesses TO prove
ms continuous residence upon and cultivation
of said land, viz:
John Martin, Daniel Firestone Jacob Root
David Root, all of Mingona Kansas
IA ~ w. r. BROwNLEE Register.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-21
Land ofice at Larned, Kans., Aug. 81. 1857

Notice Is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his in, entiOn
10 make nnal proof in support of his claim
and that said proof will be made before the
clerk OF the district court of Barber county,
Kansas, at Medicine Lodge, Kansas ON DC
tober q, 1887, viz: Carrie Williams, o. D. S. No.
1854, for the W y ne \, Sc 4 ne X and ne u
Sc sec III, twp 81 south. range ID west.
He names the following witnesses to prove
ton of said land, VIZ:
Charles Hobson, Ethel Parsley. Charles Chap
man, Emma Wilson, William Fowler, Albert
King, all OF Lake City, Barber county, Kans
10 ~ w. r. BRowNLEE, Register.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-21

Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
to make final proof in support of his claim,
and that said proof will be made before the
probate judge of Barber county. at Medicine
Lodge. Kansas, on October II, 1857 viz: John
Z. Neher, o. ID. s. 1880. for the 4 s-w sec 4.
and II Sc sec 3, twp 81 south, of range ID
west.
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultivation
of said land, viz;
Daniel Firestone, Jacob Root, Aaron Root.
William Abbott, all of Mingona, Kansas.
IA 10 w. X. BROWNLEE Register
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-21

Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice OF her intention
to make final proof in support of her claim.
and that said proof viii be made before tho
Probate Judge of Barber county, at Medicine
Lodge, Kansas, ON November 10, 1887 viz:
Mary X. Huston, o. D. S. No. 1875. for the s-e
80 SOUTH of range Is west
She names the following witnesses to prove
ner continuous residence upon and cultivation
of said land, viz:
w p Ashby. Alice Graeg, w Plat Robert
Taneryhill, all Of Etna, Kansas
IA ~ W. X. BRowSLRE, Register.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-21
Land Office at Larned, Kans Aug X 1897

Notice rs hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his Intention
TO make final proof in support of his claim.
anu lnat salu proof will be made before the
probate judge of Barber county. Mt Medicinc
Lodge, Kansas, on November 10, 1857, viz: Laser
Paiiy, y. ID. 5. No. H2l0, for the s a NV sec 8.
ana y ne section Z, twp "a south, OF range
lie names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultivation
of said land, viz:
Orlando Fritz, Morris Peremutter, A Shklar.
isaac Shklar, Jacob Rines, all of Eldred Kans
ii ~ w. X. BRowNLEE Register.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-21
No Happiness. IN Tdlen.s..

The keenest sorrows of the world are in
the homes Of people of affiuence, who are
so much envied by those who struggle in
daily toll for bread; but IL the skeletons of
the homes of the honest sons of labor could
be compared with the skeletons of the
homes Of the rich both would learn that
there is no happiness In idleness; no
wealth but the c0Dtent Of industry.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-21

Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has fled notice of his intention
TO make final proof in support OF his claim
and that said proof will be made before the
clerk of the district court of Barber county,
Kansas, at Medicine Lodge, Kansas, on No
vember -, 1887, viz: Jacob Large, o. ID. s. No
d265l, for the y ne y, n Il NV 4 sec 2. twp
81, range ID west.
He names the following witnesses to prove
of said land, viz:
Daniel Firestone. Isaac Root, of Mingona,
Barber county, Kansas; William j Vincent
James Clovis, of Elm Mills, Barber co Kans
IA 10 w. X. BROXNLEE. Register
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-21
Land Office at Larned, Kans.. Aug 2 1857

Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
10 make final proof in support of his pre-emp-
before the probate judge of Barber county, nj
Medicine Lodge, Kansas, on October II, 1857,
VIZ: Jay w. Bronson, o. ID. S. No. 1871, for the
Il Sc Il, ne "a s-w and s-w Il NE Y sec "a
Twp - south, range Is west.
He names the following witnesses to prove
DIS continuous residence upon and cultivation
of said land, viz:
Fred B Eiklor, A o Hardy, Benz O'Neal
Is Root all of 4Etna, Kansas
ii ~ w Il. RROwNLEE, Register
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Land once at Harmed. Rams. Aug. g. lss7-

Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
10 make mai proof in support Of his claim,
and that said proof will be made before the
clerk of the district court OF Barber county
Kansas, at Medicine Lodge, Kansas on Sep
tember ~, 1887, viz: Bessie Jackson, ID. s. No.
I4izO, Tor the ne i NV section IA, twp 81,
He names the following witnesses to prove
MS continuous residence upon and cultivation
of said land, viz:
Nathan s Priest, b Brattain, Vernon Lyle,
solomon Shaw, all OF Medicine Lodge post
office, Barber county, Kansas.
121 w. r. BRoWNIER Reoister
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-21
Land once at Larned, Kans. Aug. %. ,ss7.

Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has Med notice of his intention
70 make nnal proof in support OF his claim.
ana tnat SAID PROOF viii be made before the
clerk Of the district court of Barber county,
Kansas, al Medicine Lodge. Kansas, on No
VENEER ~: 1897. viz: Robert J. Collins. O. ID. s.
% SOUTH of range I2 west
he names the following witnesses to prove
nis continuous residence upon and cultivation
of said land, viz:
ID Dewitt, Perry Stewart, Joseph Mccoy.
Jonn Brlecoe, all Of Elm Mills, Kansas
u " VI. B. BRoWNLEx, Register.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-21

Notice is ereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
to make final proof in support of his claim,
and that said proof will be made before the
probate judge of Barber county. at Medicine
Lodge. Kansas, on October IL 1887, viz: Leon
Banar. o. ID. s. No. 14l64, for the u ne Sc ;
II, and NV t NV sec ., twp 81 south. lof
range IA west
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultiva-
ton of said land, viz:
Z Bronston. b Levi. A BOane, A Shkiar, I
Shklar, all Of Lodi, Kansas.
IA 10 w. X. BRowNLEE Register